different between macher vs macer

English

Alternative forms

• makher

Etymology

From Yiddish ??????? (makher, “one who makes”) from ?????? (makhn, “to make”). Cognate, naturally, to English maker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?.x??/

Noun

macher (plural machers)

1. An important person, often in the negative sense of self-important; a bigwig.

Anagrams

• Marche, charme

Middle English

Noun

macher

1. Alternative form of maser

English

Etymology

From Middle English macer, from Anglo-Norman macer, from mace (“mace”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?s?(?)

Noun

macer (plural macers)

1. A mace bearer; specifically, an officer of a court in Scotland. [from 14th c.]

   Synonym: mace-bearer

Anagrams

• Carme, McRae, crame, cream, crema, recam

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *makros, from Proto-Indo-European *mh??rós, from *meh??- (“to increase”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ?????? (makrós), Old English mæ?er (though English meager is from the Latin via French).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ma.ker/, [?mäk?r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ma.t??er/, [?m??t???r]

Adjective

macer (feminine macra, neuter macrum, comparative macrior, superlative macrissimus); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. (of living things) lean, skinny, meager
2. (of inanimate things) thin, poor

Declension

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

References

• macer in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• macer in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• macer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• macer in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman macer; equivalent to mace (“mace”) +? -er (“agentive suffix”).

Alternative forms

• macere, maceere, maser

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ma?s?r/, /ma??s??r/

Noun

macer (plural macers)

1. A macer; a mace-bearer (official)
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, III:

     Meires and maceres · that menes ben bitwene / Þe kynge and þe comune.

Descendants

• English: macer
• Scots: macer

References

• “m?c??re, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-27.

Etymology 2

From Old English *maser.

Noun

macer

1. Alternative form of maser